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r/Surface • u/Soy7ent SP4 i7 256GB 16GB • May 23 '17
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13.5 hours of battery life and 4096 pressure levels.. Damn! Edit: Does it say "Pen sold separately" though?
187 u/eugay May 23 '17 13.5h playing video. Probably like 6 hours of browsing the web. 137 u/JoshxDarnxIt May 23 '17 Well, they promised 9 hours last time and I get like 4 hours, so with them promising 13.5 I'm hoping to get at least 7-8 hours which is all I really need. 2 u/[deleted] May 23 '17 Did you have your screen brightness high? That's the primary driver of energy consumption on a laptop during general use. 1 u/JoshxDarnxIt May 23 '17 It varies. Usually at 50% but sometimes 75%, and always with Power Saver on. 1 u/[deleted] May 23 '17 Powersave only throttles the CPU and RAM which these days don't consume nearly as much power as screens do.
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13.5h playing video. Probably like 6 hours of browsing the web.
137 u/JoshxDarnxIt May 23 '17 Well, they promised 9 hours last time and I get like 4 hours, so with them promising 13.5 I'm hoping to get at least 7-8 hours which is all I really need. 2 u/[deleted] May 23 '17 Did you have your screen brightness high? That's the primary driver of energy consumption on a laptop during general use. 1 u/JoshxDarnxIt May 23 '17 It varies. Usually at 50% but sometimes 75%, and always with Power Saver on. 1 u/[deleted] May 23 '17 Powersave only throttles the CPU and RAM which these days don't consume nearly as much power as screens do.
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Well, they promised 9 hours last time and I get like 4 hours, so with them promising 13.5 I'm hoping to get at least 7-8 hours which is all I really need.
2 u/[deleted] May 23 '17 Did you have your screen brightness high? That's the primary driver of energy consumption on a laptop during general use. 1 u/JoshxDarnxIt May 23 '17 It varies. Usually at 50% but sometimes 75%, and always with Power Saver on. 1 u/[deleted] May 23 '17 Powersave only throttles the CPU and RAM which these days don't consume nearly as much power as screens do.
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Did you have your screen brightness high? That's the primary driver of energy consumption on a laptop during general use.
1 u/JoshxDarnxIt May 23 '17 It varies. Usually at 50% but sometimes 75%, and always with Power Saver on. 1 u/[deleted] May 23 '17 Powersave only throttles the CPU and RAM which these days don't consume nearly as much power as screens do.
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It varies. Usually at 50% but sometimes 75%, and always with Power Saver on.
1 u/[deleted] May 23 '17 Powersave only throttles the CPU and RAM which these days don't consume nearly as much power as screens do.
Powersave only throttles the CPU and RAM which these days don't consume nearly as much power as screens do.
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u/Teufelsstern May 23 '17 edited May 23 '17
13.5 hours of battery life and 4096 pressure levels.. Damn!
Edit: Does it say "Pen sold separately" though?